Elgin officials voted Wednesday to advance plans for the city’s second pawn shop, despite protests from some residents that the business will increase crime and damage the city’s image.
Officials still must give final approval to a business...

Les Gold has to be a tough guy a lot in his business, running a pawn shop in rough-and-tumble Detroit. This is the side audiences have seen and grown to love over five seasons of truTV's Hardcore Pawn, which follows the daily goings-on at American Jewelry...

truTV announced yesterday that it would be expanding its hit Hardcore Pawn franchise with an all-new series set in Chicago, as the network has greenlit Hardcore Pawn: Chicago. The nine-episode, half-hour series is set to premiere later this year. Hardcore...

The owners of several downtown pawn shops who allegedly did business with dozens of "knock-knock burglars" were arrested Wednesday as police tried to stem the tide of break-ins on the Westside and in the San Fernando Valley.